Kaidoh hissed as he walked around the room, that idiot was late. The sun was well on its way to setting. He had called him over two hours ago and the baka was still yet to return. Tezuka sat upon one of the three red sofas in the room which were shaped in the way of a square horse shoe, looking out over the grounds through the windows opposite the door. Tezuka didn't not look impressed with the amount of time they were waiting for Momo, so it seemed only Echizen was brave enough to sit besides the fuming captain. Oishi was sat on the middle sofa next to Yuuta, not paying attention to anyone else but the younger Kahoi. Inu was scribbling away in his green note book on the third and final red sofa whilst Kawamura was looking out of the window with his back to the rest of the room and he was the one whom finally broke the awkward and uncomfortable silence of the room.
"Maybe … maybe we should go and have a look for him." He said softly turning around to face the rest of the group. "Its getting dark and …" Kawamura trailed off looking around at the rest. There was only a sigh of agreement from Oishi in the moments that followed. Yuuta stood from the sofa shaking his head.
"I'm going to go to bed." No one challenged him or looked down on him as he left. Momo wasn't really part of the new found friends Yuuta had, more an outsider and so no one expected him to stay and help look.
"Alright everybody let's go and don't let your guard down." Tezuka said after Yuuta had shut the door. The captain of the Seigaku regulars stood, or at least that's what everyone else still thought of him even if he had accepted the training of a professional. Kaidoh hissed again as he followed the group out, being the last one. It was more of a nervous hiss though; it was hard to believe that even the block head Momo could be this late and the lack of response after hearing the 'shut up shut up shut up' was gnawing at him.
"There is a 67 per cent chance that Momo is playing tennis on one of the courts after hanging up on you earlier." Kaidoh turned his head towards the data tennis player and along with one of his glares …
"Fshuuuu", although Inui was unaffected by it, just simply because he was more involved in writing in his notebook.
"Although there is a high chance of 31 per cent that he wandered off into the woodland area and got lost." Inui carried on looking up briefly before carrying on sticking his head inside the notebook.
"What's the last 2 per cent Inui?" Kawamura asked falling behind from Oishi, Echizen and Tezuka up front.
"That he has either gone to dinner or gone to bed." Inui answered "and seeing as dinner isn't being served for another two hours then the likely hood of him being asleep is very low."
"Mada Mada Dane" came Echizen's voice from up in front.
Oishi looked up at Tezuka and frowned, "maybe we should go to the woodland area and have a look around there. It's the furthest away and if we don't find him by the time the sun sets then we head back. It's a less dangerous option and it would be safer for Momo." The vice-captain said looking over at Inui just to confirm that was the best option; however he got nothing because Inui was still writing away in his green notebook. Tezuka took the lead as came naturally to him, taking a turn towards the woodland area. It was a short walk of about 10 minutes from the main complex but again far enough for the students there to enjoy the beauty of nature.
Tezuka stopped in front of the tree line and looked around at the group, "we should split up into doubles, everyone has their phone on them. If you find Momoshiro you phone the rest of the group and we met back here. If you haven't found Momoshiro by an hour, we all meet back here and go and see if he is on the tennis courts. Understand?" He asked the group looking around. Only Kawamura and Oishi nodded in agreement but Tezuka knew that the others understood the instructions even if they didn't voice or show their understanding. "Right, the groups are myself and Kawamura, Oishi and Inui, Echizen and Kaidoh. Remember not to let your guards down and be here in an hour, we don't want to be looking for more lost members who wandered too far."
With those final words, the group walked through the western area which was the nearest part to the complex together before splitting off to cover the other three parts. Oishi and Inui took the northern part, which was darkened slightly by the overshadowing of the tall cliff; Oishi knew for a fact, and didn't need Inui telling him, that if you carried on following it around and out of the main campus you would get to the area where all the secret camp had to climb to get to their destination to train. It became quickly clear that the only thing noisy about this area, well as noisy as Momo was the wildlife and no one had been through this part too recently but they wanted to make sure.
Tezuka and Kawamura took the east area, which was the part nearest to the edge of the campus. Just like Oishi and Inui that the only noisy thing about this area was the wildlife however they did see that people had been through recently, this afternoon recently. Frowning Tezuka took the decision to follow the tracks, whilst Kawamura kept on calling out for Momo, hoping the boy would appear soon. It was known that Momo liked to be in touch with his naturist surroundings but this seemed more than slightly ridiculous if he was still out here. Albeit it was Tezuka following the tracks it was Kawamura who spotted a most curious thing. The boy stopped calling and frowned, which caused Tezuka to become curious and turn to the boy on his right.
"Tezuka, didn't they say that the campus fencing was more than secure?" Kawamura asked, his right arm pointing at where they had managed to reach the campus fencing. Tezuka followed the direction he was pointing in and although it didn't register on his face, it surprised him to notice the great big gapping hole that someone had cut through in the fencing. Large enough to fit 5 men comfy in between the gap and stand without problems. The ends where too neatly cut to be animals or a car charging through. Tezuka looked at his watch. "It's been an hour Kawamura." He said simply before turning back.
By the time that Tezuka and Kawamura got back only Oishi and Inui were standing there. Oishi looked worried though, his face was going pale even in the lack of sunlight it was still so very clear.
"Did you find Momo?" Oishi asked coming over to the pair that had returned. Tezuka didn't reply and only looked away, so it was left to Kawamura to fill the worried vice captain in verbally.
"We didn't find Momo, but we did find that the fencing in one area has been cut away. It may have something to do with Fuji's and Kikumaru's disappearance. We'll need to tell security." Oishi still looked worried; Momo hadn't completely recovered from having his wrists smashed in by the power play of his opponent in the elimination rounds at the beginning of the camp. The rustling of the bushes alerted the others to Kaidoh's and Echizen's return whom had taken the south clearing. Kaidoh was holding something in his right hand tightly.
When the remaining Seigaku regulars thought their hopes couldn't be even more shattered than they already where, they were wrong. When they couldn't find Momo on the courts, nor in his and Kaidoh's room, nor in the canteen, their hopes were blown into oblivion. The hardest thing they had to do that day was tell the security about what had happened, who then phoned the police. As they all settled down to try and get some sleep of which it would prove fruitless, Kaidoh only finally placed the thing, which he had been holding for the whole time, down on the bedside cabinet on the right of his bed which was situated in between his and Momo's bed. The only reason he didn't get to sleep that night was because he kept on wishing that the broken phone in two parts would start ringing randomly and a certain baka's voice would come happily through the speakers.
Just going to say I have redone chapter 10! and awww only one review for this chapter? Have I managed to do something bad with my terrible old chapter 10?
BF: Hope I answered the question for you on Momo's wrists. As for hints, I'll give you one or two. In the next chapter things are going to start happening. One thing will come to a close but something else will start, so a closure and an opening ... can't tell you anything more than that. But yeah Eiji is pretty close to breaking now ...
Reviews please! I can't write the next chapter without one review because then I start to fret! PLEASE REVIEW!
